They didn't have to sell their shares - The rise and demise of SACBH-ABB Grain
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The South Australian Co-operative Bulk Handling Ltd. (SACBH) was established in 1954 and took the state’s grain industry from the laborious and inefficient use of jute bags for the handling and storage of grain, into the contemporary era of bulk handling and storage. However, changes to the national grains industry during the 1980s led to market deregulation and the corporatisation of many statutory authorities in the decades that followed. Faced with this changing environment in 2000, SACBH transformed from a co-operative into a hybrid business model, AusBulk-UGH. This comprised a public company AusBulk Ltd., which was 51% owned by the grower-owned private company United Grower Holdings (UGH). By 2004, increasing pressure from members and outside interests led the company to merge with ABB Grain Ltd., the former Australian Barley Board (ABB), which was privatised in 1999. In 2007 ABB Grain Ltd. was restructured, resulting in the loss of grower control over the business. The following year the company was publicly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), for total of $187 million. However, in 2009 the newly listed company was acquired by Canada’s Viterra for $1.6 billion and is now owned by the Anglo-Swiss Glencore, which acquired Viterra in 2013.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.011 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".